Our perspective is like the sum total of our beliefs and world views. We don't even think that we're making a choice when we view a situation in a certain way. The religious dogmatist problem is exactly the same as the story's unbeliever, blind certainty. No matter how certain you are with your beliefswen, he says he's learned in this the hard way. You have not yet, but i learned it the easy way.
David and Tamler dive into David Foster Wallace’s celebrated and surprisingly earnest Kenyon College commencement speech “This is Water”. How can we escape the prison and prism of our (literally) self-centered perspective? Can we choose to adjust our natural default settings, take a break from our running inner monologue, and pay attention to what’s in front of us right now? Is DFW appealing to Buddhist ideas or something more general that you can be found across all spiritual traditions?
Plus we ask the AI ethics program “Ask Delphi” some tough moral questions (spoiler alert: "just the tip" is "rude"), and almost get into a big fight about the potential of AI ethical robots (but we’re saving that argument for a future episode).
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